DOMINION'S NEWSPAPERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22353, 26 February 1936, Page 14

DOMINION'S NEWSPAPERS

PRAISE FROM LORD TRENT COMPARISON WITH BRITISH [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION*] WELLINGTON, Tuesday Interesting comment on New Zealand newspapers iVas made by Lord Trent, chairman of Boots Pure Drug Company, England, who is visiting Wellington, when addressing members of tho Rotary Club to-day. "The wonderful thing about your newspapers," said Lord Trent, "is that they are so extraordinarily like our newspapers at home. I don't mean merely that they are well printed on good paper and made up in much the same way, but tho subjects of which they treat are the same as the subjects treated in any of our first-class provincial newspapers—cricket or football, Miss Jean Batten or tho British Navv, they belong to all of us. "The fact is that in these days, when distance has been abolished by the telegraph and cables, the news that interests us is the same news that interest* you. Apart from local news we share other interests in common and we share those interests in common because we are one people. That is to me, a visitor from tho other end of the world, a very remarkable and significant fact. London is your capital as much as mine; it is the centre of your world as much as it is tho centre of ours."